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A grammar of colouring, applied to decorative painting and parts (1888)

Field, George, 1777?-1854, Davidson, Ellis A., d. 1878 · London : Crosby Lockwood · leaf 211

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OURING. hidden the others. Portions of this frieze are in the British Museum, and casts, coloured to suit the various theories as to the extent to which the ancients applied colour to sculptures, may be seen in the Crystal Palace (Greek Court). The pediments (or triangular spaces above the columns… … Fig. 19. occupy. The frieze outside was filled with metopes or groups of figures and triglyphs, which were supposed to represent the ends of joists resting on the archi- traves. These were divided into three compartments by grooves or water- channels, and underneath are pendants, supposed to…

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